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CVE-2018-16645

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-09-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-770

Description

There is an excessive memory allocation issue in the functions ReadBMPImage of coders/bmp.c and ReadDIBImage of coders/dib.c in ImageMagick 7.0.8-11, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted image file.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 18.04
• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• ImageMagick: 7.0.8-11

References

• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/ecb31dbad39ccdc65868d5d2a37f0f0521250832
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1268
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00002.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3785-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4034-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4316
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/ecb31dbad39ccdc65868d5d2a37f0f0521250832
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1268
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00002.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3785-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4034-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4316

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